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Everything comes down to this: the practice of conservation ought to be based on the standard implicit in the language of the natural history of living things. This is a language we all begin to master at an early age, as we learn to identify any living thing. It is a return to a standard for evaluating things as they always were.
Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you are helping to reinforce resistance to change …
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Campagna, C., Guevara, D. (2023). Leaving Things as They Were. In: Speaking of Forms of Life. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34534-0_25
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